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2017/06/19 20:55:29 (permalink)

SONAR X3 sees but will not use 2nd Yamaha UX16 USB MIDI interface

Hi my name is Gene,
I am a composer.  Lately, I have been writing for larger ensembles and needed more than 16 MIDI channels.
I have pretty much been using MIDI since it hit the stores 30 or so years ago.
Back then I used a Yamaha MT1X four track, Cakewalk Pro and a SMPTE tape sync from a Music Quest MIDI card do what these DAWs are supposed to do.  I am just now getting to where the DAW runs without locking up the PC but that has happened at the expense of my MIDI live input.
I have regained some of my MIDI functionality when I installed a USB 3.0 card and my Yamaha UX16 MIDI interface.
The other interfaces developed major latency problems and did not have Win7 or 10 drivers.
SONAR X3 sees but will not use 2nd Yamaha UX16 USB MIDI interface.
Before the Windows Operating Systems forced me out of my bus card based MIDI interfaces I had no problem running 32 channels of MIDI using a pair of MIDI interfaces.
I've had to switch to all USB interfaces because of major latency issues especially on the input controller connections.
I am currently running Windows 10 on the following equipment
   AMD Athlon 2 Dual Core running 3.1 GB
   4 GB Memory
   2 TB HD
   2 USB 3.0 ports for the Yamaha UX16
 
Yamaha UX16-1 -
KaWAI Mav-8 MIDI Patch Bay
- Computer .. X3... = UX16
- Roland TR-505 (1 channel) (Aux Controller)
- Roland D5 (8 Channels) (Primary Controller)
- Yamaha DX-100 (1 Channel) (Secondary Controller)
Yamaha UX16-2
Proteus/1 Pop/Rock (16 Channels)
 
I had to swap out one of the Yamaha UX16 interfaces and replace it with a garden variety USB 2.0 MIDI interface.
I placed the fast interface on the Input side (Controllers) because I needed to regain my ability to record live MIDI.
I placed the slower interface on the Output side (Proteus) the latency is not quite as blatant on that side.
 
I am very much sick of MIDI latency problems brought these days.
I did not have any of these delays when I ran my sequencer on the older, much slower hardware.
What's up with that?
 
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    Gene_Townsend
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    Re: SONAR X3 sees but will not use 2nd Yamaha UX16 USB MIDI interface 2017/06/20 17:47:06 (permalink)
    Shortly after writing this post I decided to replace the garden variety USB MIDI interface with my Roland UM-1.
    I saw something on one of the sites that there was a Win 10 driver available for it.
    There was no such thing that came into play. The interface activity light never lit.
     
    I put my Yamaha UX16 interface back in. This time it showed as "2-Yamaha UX16".
    When I loaded the 2nd Yamaha UX16 interface before it was listed as "Yamaha UX16-2" and primary was listed as "Yamaha UX16-1".
     
    They are now both receiving MIDI traffic.
    No more garden variety slow USB interface on the Proteus.
    Yeah.......
     
    I love it when a plan comes together.
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